Copenhagen

Thursday marked the end of DrupalCon CPH proper, but there was an optional "Code Sprint" on Friday for those who were interested.  The idea was to get a whole bunch of developers together to help propel Drupal 7 closer to launch-readiness.

At the start of the week, to be honest I really didn't plan on going.  I had Friday and Saturday to do whatever I wanted before my flight back to Calgary on Sunday morning, and since it was my first time in Europe I was intent on spending both of them exploring Copenhagen. That was the start of the week...

The third and final day of sessions at DrupalCon.

• Be a Happier Drupal Developer with Rules
• Acquia: Accelerating Drupal Adoption
• Keynote: Jeremy Keith on the Design of HTML5
• Git Fundamentals
• Views 3
• Writing Better CSS for Drupal
• Closing Session

The second day of sessions at DrupalCon Copenhagen.

• From an HTML/CSS Template to a Drupal Theme
• Trellon: How Earth Day Handled 80 Million Hits in 2 Days
• Keynote: Rasmus Lerdorf on PHP 5.3, and Drupal Performance
• Met Dries Buytaert!
• On the Importance of DONE: Scrum & Drupal at the Economist
• A Template Approach: Cut Your Design Time Down by 200%
• Drupal Performance: Then, Now, & The Future
• Use SimpleTest!
• An Evening on the Town

Tuesday marked the first true day of DrupalCon. Here are the sessions I attended.

• Drupal Commerce - Setting up Shop on Drupal 7
• About the Rules Ecosystem
• Keynote: Dries Buytaert on The State of Drupal
• How to Anticipate the Needs of Your Clients
• Drupal 7 - What You Need to Know
• 10 Reasons Why You Should be Using Features
• Awesomeness Redefined: Drupal 7 Theming

While the conference proper didn't start until Tuesday, there was some stuff going on Monday, including a bar-camp style "Unconference", and a number of full-day training sessions, of which I attended the "Drupal Powered E-commerce" one, which was put on by Commerce Guys, a shop that specializes exclusively in building e-commerce sites using Drupal.

Attempted a panorama of the view from my hotel in Copenhagen. Downtown is on the left, with Christianshavn across the river in front. (Map)

A panorama of the view from my hotel in Copenhagen. Downtown is on the left, with Christianshavn in front.

Got to the airport nearly two hours early for once; as anyone who knows me can attest, I tend to show up as late as I can possibly get away with for just about everything. Call it a lifestyle.

After checking in, I wandered around the airport for a while looking for shit to buy that might prove useful for the trip.

Well, I finally managed to get my blog online. At 3am in a hotel room in Copenhagen, no less. (I wonder if a foreign birth will cause any problems if my blog decides to run for president one day? These are the kinds of things I think about at 3am in hotel rooms in Copenhagen.)